Countdown to Halloween: 5 Days

My Costume History - Part 2

So are you finished laughing about yesterday's pictures yet?

I don't know if any of you remember these types of costumes, but they were the ones that came in a box, with the cheap plastic costume and mask. The plastic smelled like the liner of an old swimming pool and the mask started to smell after you kept it on for awhile (ya know, you couldn't breathe so you drooled all over the inside of it). Well, maybe that was just me. Sorry. Anyway, I still remember every year going in to Toys R Us to pick out my costume, seeing the shelves lined with those costume boxes. It was so much fun to peer down into the clear plastic top of the box to see the mask looking back at you...the question was always, "Who do I want to be this year?"

It's a shame they don't have those kind of costumes anymore...I'm not really sure why they don't, aside from the fact that maybe children were suffocating inside them? I sure hope not. I mean, you do see children's costumes out there, but now they're actually made of quality cloth material. Bleh...who needs that?! It's just not the same.

So, anyway, onto the costumes.

My mom couldn't remember exactly when these were from, but she's pretty sure they're from our Kindergarten year...so, five years old.

Example 1:
Erin as Oscar the Grouch, Me as Cookie Monster (we loved Sesame Street). This is us standing in the foyer of our Mom-Mom and Poppy's house. I don't know if you can see this, but I have a real spiced wafer cookie taped onto the front of my costume....pretty ingenious, huh?



Example 2:
Here we are with Mom visiting our Grandmom and Granddad. Every year, they would give us a little ziploc bag of some candy (usually Snickers & Milky Ways), spiced wafers, and a red apple...yes, that's right...an apple on Halloween. Gram always said that she had to give us something at least a little healthy. I just remember that when I decided to eat my apple maybe a day or so later, it always tasted like a spiced wafer. Erin could attest to this.



More to come tomorrow!...Part 3 "My Punk Years"